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11:15 AM ET, May 14, 2013

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Mark Sherman / bigstory.ap.org:
GOVT OBTAINS WIDE AP PHONE RECORDS IN PROBE  —  You are here  —  Home » Government and politics » Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press …
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Washington Post:
IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups  —  Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Uneven I.R.S. Scrutiny Seen in Political Spending by Big Tax-Exempt Groups  —  Over the last two years, government watchdog groups filed more than a dozen complaints with the Internal Revenue Service seeking inquiries into whether large nonprofit organizations like those founded …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The Panopticon President  —  A new critique emerges.  Fear of a narrow new government power at a scary moment.  —  Less than four months into President Barack Obama's second term, the hazy perception of a government reaching further and further into individuals' lives in an era of broad …
Lauren French / Politico:
IRS head Steven Miller: ‘Mistakes were made’  —  Steven Miller is breaking his silence about the scandal that's engulfing the Internal Revenue Service.  —  Miller, the acting IRS commissioner, is quickly emerging as the focus of fury in Washington after an agency official acknowledged …
Discussion: Reuters
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Journalists fume over DOJ raid on AP  —  Journalists on Monday called the news the Justice Department seized records from phone lines assigned to Associated Press offices and its reporters over a two month period “chilling” and a “dragnet to intimidate the media.”
Politico:   IRS mess adds to campaign finance free-for-all
ProPublica:
IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups
John Cassidy / News Desk:
A.P. Scandal Raises Spectre of Big Brother
New York Times:
Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Conflict of Interest?  —  TPM Reader SS thinks there's …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Daily Kos
Associated Press:
Dems vow: ‘Hell to pay’ if IRS allegations ring true
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate Conservative Tax-Exempt Groups
Josh Gerstein / Reuters:
Israel-related groups also pointed to IRS scrutiny
Discussion: Hot Air and Sister Toldjah
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Under sweeping subpoenas, Justice Department obtained AP phone records in leak investigation
Fox News:
Lawmakers rip Justice Department over AP phone records grab
Angelina Jolie / New York Times:
My Medical Choice  —  MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56.  She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms.  But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's claim he called Benghazi an ‘act of terrorism’  —  “The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.”  —  Once again, it appears that we must parse a few presidential words.  We went through this question at length during the 2012 election, but perhaps a refresher course is in order.
FLNation / The Florida Nation:
RNC FL Hispanic Director is Now a Democrat  —  I've known Pablo Pantoja for years.  We were both in the same graduate program at Florida State University.  We bonded because we were both also state employees at the time.  However, Pantoja had another, another job.
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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
RNC Director Of Hispanic Outreach Quits Party And Registers As A Democrat
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Nobody's Laughing Now  —  How pervasive is the Obama IRS scandal?  —  David Plouffe had an intriguing comment yesterday on the scandal involving selective tax-law enforcement against Tea Party groups.  The manager of the 2008 Obama campaign who served as a top White House aide until this January …
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Obama knee-deep in Nixon-esque scandal
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Sense of Events
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Rep. Issa: ‘How dare’ Obama say he can fairly investigate IRS scandal
Discussion: The Huffington Post
RT:
CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow - FSB  —  Russia's counterintelligence agency has detained a CIA agent in Moscow trying to recruit an officer of the Russian secret service, the Federal Security Service (FSB) announced.  The agent was operating under guise of career diplomat.
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CBS News:
Russia spy agency claims CIA agent arrested for trying to recruit Russian agent in Moscow  —  Russia's security services claimed Tuesday to have arrested a CIA agent posing as an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for allegedly trying to recruit a Russian secret service agent to work for the U.S.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi: If Boehner Were A Woman, They'd Call Him ‘Weakest Speaker In History’ (VIDEO)  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has drawn no shortage of critics - even within his own party — but his predecessor thinks he's getting off easy.  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:   Pelosi: ObamaCare ‘largely responsible’ for bringing down deficit
M.L. Johnson / greenbaypressgazette.com:
7-year-old boy gets handwritten letter from Biden  —  MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin boy wrote Vice President Joe Biden with an unusual suggestion for making the nation safer: Create guns that shoot chocolate bullets.  —  On Monday, he got an unusual response: A handwritten note from Biden on vice presidential stationery.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats: Nuclear option for filibuster is back on the table  —  Senate Democrats frustrated with the GOP's blocking of a string of President Obama's nominees are seriously weighing a controversial tactic known as the “nuclear option.”  —  The option — which would involve Democrats …
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Jonathan Bernstein / The Plum Line:
You want a scandal? Here's a scandal.
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union  —  Overview  —  The European Union is the new sick man of Europe.  The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the principal casualty of the euro crisis.  The European project now stands in disrepute across much of Europe.
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Bill Hader to Leave ‘Saturday Night Live’  —  With just one departure, “Saturday Night Live” is losing its excitable “Weekend Update” city correspondent, Stefon; its frenetic incarnations of James Carville, Al Pacino, Vincent Price and Julian Assange; and any number of unctuous, self-satisfied game-show hosts.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Pentagon cuts furloughs to 11 days  —  The Pentagon is reducing the number of furlough days for most of its civilian employees to 11 days, according to a senior defense official.  —  The number of furloughs that the majority of the Pentagon's 800,000 civilians will be required to take in 2013 …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
 
 
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